It’s nice to see more and more of the world’s information getting organized
-- sorted, indexed, and cataloged -- making it easy to find. We now know
more of what is where and how to access it.

But there’s something to be said about serendipity. Sometimes there’s no
substitute for walking into a random aisle in a library and perusing books.
Sometimes, getting lost results in finding what you may need.

In that spirit, this week’s words have been selected randomly, by getting
lost in the dictionary and landing on a word. If you need more, we have a
way for you to see a word at random from A.Word.A.Day archives.

exordium

PRONUNCIATION:

(ig/eg-ZOR-dee-uhm, ik-SOR-)

MEANING:

noun: The beginning or introductory part of anything, especially of a discourse, treatise, etc.